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This is an audio production study of that album with the raw, unedited, dirty audio of all eight stanza of the backwards/back masked poem heard between the nine cuts from "Phantom’s Divine Comedy: Part 1."
For those of you who own copies of all the post-non-CEMA/One Way 1993 reissue on CD or original 1974 Capitol vinyl copies: You won’t hear the back masked poem, as result of its low audio not being picked up by those post-1993 needle drop-versions issued on CD and vinyl.
For those that own the 1974 vinyl and 1993 compact disc-version: You really need to crank the audio and equalizer to hear it on your home stereo. Thus, I hope you enjoy the ability to hear the poem more clearly with increased audio as one continuous cut. Even now, 50 years later, fans are shocked to learn there is a "hidden poem" on the album.
Each stanza of the poem tails, and is part of the song that proceeds it. Thus, for example, as you listen to the first poem’s stanza, you can hear, faintly, “Tales From a Wizard” playing in the background. In the sixth stanza, you can hear “Black Magic/White Magic,” and so on.
The "backwards version" can be found on my page, as well.
CREDITS:
Phantom photo from Phantom's Divine Comedy: Part 1, 1973 by Tom Weschler.
Jim Morrison photos by Joel Brodsky.
Video effects by R.D Francis.